Unfortunately I think the same. It's not that at this time of the championship there is going to be a huge "shift" of competitiveness among teams, although maybe McLaren if they had a normal race with no problems they could shine in comparison to previous races...

But again Ferrari will be fighting for a podium at much, not for a win.

The last time a driver won five races in a row was Schumacher in 2004. Amazingly he did it on two separate occasions that season winning five in a row from Australia to Spain and then seven in a row from Europe to Hungary.

If Vettel doesn't have any problems the only one who can stop him here is Hamilton, purely because he is the only driver apart from the Red Bulls who is capable of qualifying on pole. I imagine Webber will be asked to move over so for the sake of the sanity of most F1 fans this race needs Hamilton to pull something out of the bag on Saturday. They were only a couple of tenths off in India and the consensus seems to be that McLaren will be more suited to Abu Dhabi.

A Canada round II (Vettel vs Hamilton vs Alonso in comparable cars) would be lovely but is probably unrealistic.

The last time a driver won five races in a row was Schumacher in 2004. Amazingly he did it on two separate occasions that season winning five in a row from Australia to Spain and then seven in a row from Europe to Hungary.

If Vettel doesn't have any problems the only one who can stop him here is Hamilton, purely because he is the only driver apart from the Red Bulls who is capable of qualifying on pole. I imagine Webber will be asked to move over so for the sake of the sanity of most F1 fans this race needs Hamilton to pull something out of the bag on Saturday. They were only a couple of tenths off in India and the consensus seems to be that McLaren will be more suited to Abu Dhabi.

A Canada round II (Vettel vs Hamilton vs Alonso in comparable cars) would be lovely but is probably unrealistic.

Vettel's objective must be to keep Alonso Diaz behind him, if he can, and then win, if he can, without risking DNF. Unfortunately it comes to numbers now. Vettel is not racing Hamilton, regardless what anyone says at the end.

Guys trust me......Red Bulls are the cars to beat. come FP3 and Quali...they will unleash their God mode. Hamilton is thereabouts....but make no mistake that the bulls are there to play catchup.......thats for sure....

Hamilton has always been brilliant at this track - yet I can't work out why that is, since (on the surface anyway) it's not all that different from somewhere like Bahrain, where Hamilton hasn't been quite so stellar in the past.

Yup - but it's quite close between the two. Hamilton and Vettel both had a DNF from a good position to complicate things. Hamilton has more points here than Vettel (43 to 35) because Vettel's first win here was when it awarded 10 points instead of 25.